Re: [Flightgear-devel] weather updates

2006-04-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 20:09:24 +0200, Paul wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Monday 03 April 2006 19:11, Justin Smithies wrote: > > But if your flying would it not be possible you could be in a > > differnet region under an hour that has different weather > > conditions. I would have though

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weather updates

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Monday 03 April 2006 19:11, Justin Smithies wrote: > But if your flying would it not be possible you could be in a differnet > region under an hour that has different weather conditions. > I would have thought as most of us use adsl that the option to chage this > would be better. > > Why else d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weather updates

2006-04-03 Thread Ron Jensen
Oh, that. It does do that, at least mine does that, in fact there is a metar seam on very short final into my favorite runway ( 14 at KHIF ) The weather changes at random spots between the middle marker and halfway down the runway based on how fast the metar data comes off the 'net... Are you us

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weather updates

2006-04-03 Thread Justin Smithies
For example Dyce EGPD to Edinburgh EGPH does not take 1 hour and if you look at the ftp://weather.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/ site and view their weather data they are totally different. So being able to choose when the the system updates would be much better as you could easil

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weather updates

2006-04-03 Thread Justin Smithies
Yes real weather on .. Thought it only updated once every hour ? Im at EGPD... So you mean to say if i fly from EGPD to EGPH once im near EGPH FG will D/L a new metar file for that location ?? Or will it wait 1 hour ? Whats the param --- /environment/params/metar-max-age-min for ? Re

[Flightgear-devel] weather updates

2006-04-03 Thread Justin Smithies
is it possible to make the weather check for updates more often than 1 hourly ? Is there a file that can be modified or prop tree variable ? Justin Smithies --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that e

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weather updates

2006-04-03 Thread Justin Smithies
But if your flying would it not be possible you could be in a differnet region under an hour that has different weather conditions. I would have thought as most of us use adsl that the option to chage this would be better. Why else does x-plane and fs2004 have this option ? Justin Smithies On

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weather updates

2006-04-03 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 17:58 +0100, Justin Smithies wrote: > is it possible to make the weather check for updates more often than 1 > hourly ? > Is there a file that can be modified or prop tree variable ? > > Justin Smithies I believe the metar data is only updated hourly at the source so there